Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for January 23, 2022

I thought the cats prefer to use us as cat beds.

Which is one reason why when I got new pillows a while back, my old ones were placed to the side on my bed. Suddenly Sparky didn’t have to worry about me rolling over on her on those occasions she felt like using the pillow for it’s intended purpose as a cat bed!

We have pillows all over the house for the cats – and dog – to sleep on. They are very popular and they never try to sleep on ours (at least not when we do).

I follow a YouTube channel featuring a guy who runs a resale shop near Chicago. He has a calico cat. Someone sold him some large dolls, and a doll-sized bunk bed. The cat saw that and said, “For me? You should have.” She climbed right in and now it’s “Not For Sale.”

Oh, I might actually need this one printed out – it’s like Camera One has been in my room… Diesel sleeps on his own pillow next to mine. Raven sometimes likes to sleep on my head, especially when it gets colder.

If it exists, it belongs to cats.

I love it when the cats are all in their jammies.

SUNDAY FUNDAY

That’s odd. Do most of your cats sleep on pillows? None of my cats ever slept on or near my pillows. Most of them preferred to sleep in the absolute center of the bed, and they always tried to beat me to it. Whenever I won, they went to the foot of the bed and warmed my feet, so a double win for me. Note: I did not always win.

Perhaps Lupin could use the recent report on Sophie and Tommy to teach the people the importance of sharing.

Pillows are nothing to play with, Goldie.

Tries to keep stern face. Fails utterly.

Can’t believe I said that with a straight f… Is this mic on?

If any part of me is horizontal, I am the cat bed.

See today’s Texts from Mittens

I have one neck roll which I absolutely positively can not use at night as one of my cats, a Persian named Kimber, will usually occupy it and if I get hold of it first, he simply uses either my back or chest/stomach (depending on how I am lying in bed) as a trampoline until he gets his neckroll back, no ifs, ands or buts, its a simple reality. Also interesting that Goldie is keeping the man busy, I always thought Elvis was keen on making sure that he pays enough attention to the Man by running in place on him as part of the “Elvis Morning Routine”.

Your pillow’s mine

Gonna tell you right

Just take your place

By day and night

I’m telling you

On how I feel

So don’t you mind

What I reveal

Come on, come on

Let me lay on it all night

I’m giving you

On count of fourty-three

To show your stuff

Or let it be

I’m telling you

Just to watch your mouth

I shed my game

You cough about

Well they say somewhere there’s a limit

And to me that’s quite not true

But my friend you have seen nothin’

Just wait ’til I get through

‘Cause I’m in bed, in bed come on (Kitty kitty bed)

You know I’m in bed, in bed and you know it (Kitty kitty bed)

(Michael Jackson “Bad”)

When I fix my bed in the morning, I just straighten it out, pull up the covers and then put a small blanket over my pillow. That way after I leave the bedroom, one of my cats likes to come in and sleep on the pillow. I know the cat has been on the pillow because the small blanket is all askew. She likes it so I don’t mind.

My cats ignore the pillows. They prefer the blankets as they are warm and fuzzy.

Patience Man. Goldie is almost settled. Just 41 more circles …

It not a good idea to let cats on yer pillows. Ya knows, they can wipes their…er…ya know, all over it.

I have my parent’s bedroom set in one of the rooms upstairs set up as a guest room. It’s only a double bed, but it will do if someone stays over. Loaner Cat found the pillows at the head of the bed and made herself a nest. She NEVER sleeps on pillows. NEVER! I had to wash everything and cover the bed with a king sized sheet so at least if anyone stays, I can whip the sheet off and everything’s clean underneath. Sometimes, I don’t get my cat.

Any nap spot makes a good cat bed.

I LOVE sharing. Something about my new pillow had made Bella cuddle at my head all night, and that’s great.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Elvis-Anum: Time to bring out the napping cushions.

Beatrixia: I’ll be ready after I circle the cushion 72 times.

Lupinium: I need to run around the room 32 times before I pounce on the cushion.

Thomios: I just made 67 biscuits. Now I’m ready to nap.

Puckmosis: I’ve been ready for the past ten minutes.

Enter the Royal Procurers

Agnes-Ata: We’ll be going uh, shopping during nap time.

Elvis: When do you ladies sleep?

Tash: We’ll never tell!

Everybody’s talking about

Foam Pillow, Bamboo Pillow, Cotton Pillow, Latex Pillow, Buckwheat Pillow, Gel Pillow

This pillow, that pillow, jell-o soft or rough as brillo

All we are saying is give fleece a chance

(Come on, come on, come on)

All we are saying is give fleece a chance

John Lennon – Give Peace a Chance – Plastic Ono Band

Smudge likes to sleep on Paul’s pillow or on the body pillow. Sometimes, during the night, he slithers over, puts his front legs around my face and tucks his face against mine and purrs and purrs and purrs. It’s both soothing and aggravating.

Akiro has no interest in pillows; he prefurs sleeping in the precise middle of either the soft fuzzy blanket on the bed or one of the very large dog beds. Bella, on the other hand, is quite fond of pillows. When she is allowed on the couch, she loves to rest her head on the firm bolster I use as an arm rest.

My childhood cat, Blackie, slept under pillows. My mother made the bed using that technique popular in the ’50s of folding the pillows in half lengthwise and rolling them up in the bedspread so they looked like a solid bolster roll. Blackie would get under the pillows and leave just one white front foot peeking out so we knew she was in there.

Yep, my cats step on my face several times a night, as they pace around the bed. I’ve gotten to where it barely wakes me up any more. Or sometimes I dream I feel a cat walking around on the bed but then I wake up and there wasn’t really a cat there.

All the cats in this strip are cute, especially Elvis on the children’s bed.

9/10

Puck what firmness level do you prefur?

I have four pillows in my bed: three for me and one for Dash the cat.

There’s an amazingly huge variety of cat beds out there. It’s much better than the hundreds of toothpaste choices humans have. The cat beds are almost all good.

OT: New Cats

Belle sleeps curled up by Marie’s head. Holly-Bear sleeps in the same spot by her feet. Hamilton sleeps between or over my legs and Mittens pulls down toilet paper and makes a nest on the bathroom floor. The three bed-cats effectively trap us in bed. That didn’t use to be a problem, however, now that there are frequent nighttime bathroom trips, it upsets the apple cart everytime we have to rise.

My loving late wife and I had many cats through the 35 years we were together, Only one of them ever slept on the pillow “with” me. We had a female Chihuahua however who did. I have mentioned before that all of our cats and dogs really loved the “Cuddle Duds” brand of blankets and we always called the Chihuahua blankets because the Chihuahua’s really loved them. We had them all over the house and all of the animals would steal them from each other. My loving late wife’s 2 Oriental Shorthair cats don’t seem to care about them though at least not yet. They never got a chance to “learn” from all of the other animals.

Lucylu does exactly 4 circles every time before she curls up in my lap. Neither cat likes pillows thankfully. They each have their own bed, well big Gray has 3 that he rotates through.

I read all the comments, I think all cats do all of the above sometimes!!! that’s what we are here for!!!

Ah, the old paw in the eye trick, Goldie, yup, my kitties know that one too.

When Natasha and Ash were still with me, there would be mornings on the weekends that I would wake up with both of them on my wheat husk pillow (not very large), purring up a storm. Sometimes would go to bed like that. Vlad, Sebastian, no. And since my pillow makes noises, Oopie the first time he heard it, he said as he ran away “nope, nope, nope”. But now, after I explained to him that I needed it for my neck, he’ll let me use it close to him. Just have to move it s l o w l y.

I don’t know about everyone else but on the 17th I finally got to donate for Betty White’s 100th. I donated $5 for everyone of my furry babies. ($25 plus extra to offset bank fees). I donated to my local Humane Society where I just got Ruke and some of my other babies have gotten shots before. I was glad a had a little extra this month to be able to donate.

I had two pillows someone gave me that I didn’t need. Nobody takes pillows anymore. A few days ago the amazing local rescue lady took a lot of my old blankets so I offered her the pillows also and she took those. I told her about BCN too! I hope her beautiful rescues say “This cat bed is awesome!”

I love this comic strip so much.

Our sweet boy fluff always had to sleep on my husband’s pillow.

Don’t see the evidence, Goldie. Maybe you or Puck could whip up a chart.

One of mine curls up on the pillow and my face when it’s breakfast time, i.e., 6:30 a.m. He purrs a lot. Waaay better than when he runs full speed from the living room into the bedroom and onto my stomach in one mighty leap!! That’s him on the left…

Another happy Elvis sighting—nice

Our Lily loves to use a little Ninetails that we have at the end of our couch as a pillow for her head. Earlier we had a Raggedy Ann doll there that she laid her sweet head on.

I love how she has settled in to her new home.